Tennis Tossing Motion - Speed Kills

That's right, too fast of a tossing motion and your serve consistency takes a major hit.

You get zero value for power, spin, and placement control with a fast tossing motion.

A high quality tossing motion is supposed to accomplish 2 main functions.

#1 is to be able to place the ball exactly where you want it to be depending on what kind of serve you plan on playing, and,

#2 a quality tossing motion puts you into an ideal hitting position set up.

If your toss is too fast, guess what, you might get the ball where you want it to be, but the chances of you achieving an on balance hitting position are slim.

Slow it down, find a tempo (a rhythm) in the speed of your arm going up prior to when you release the ball and then maintain that tempo all the way up to your tossing motion finish position.

Your toss has 5 major parts.

1 - Your starting position with your hands

2 - The straightening of your arm as it goes down to your thigh

3 - The upward motion of your arm prior to releasing the ball

4 - The specific release point of the ball

5 - The finish position of your arm at the end of the tossing motion

I like to feel that when I start my arm going up from my thigh, that once I make that initial move up that the speed my arm goes up stays constant until I finally get to the finish position of the toss.

There's a tempo, a contolled speed, with your arm going up and at no point should that speed change, especially when you release the ball at about the top of your head.

A clean arm spped tempo when you toss gives you a much better chance of settling into the ideal hiting position.

If your serve's tossing motion isn't just right, your serve is going to suffer, and guess what, when your serve suffers, normally the rest of your game takes a hit...

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2nd Serve - Maintaining Racket Head Speed

One of the biggest problems we create with our 2nd serve is if we slow the racket down just prior to contact.

For some of us, it's instinctive to slow the racket down to make sure we at least get the 2nd serve in play. It's a push...

A slower racket head through the ball takes away the possibility for quality spin.

With your 2nd serve, you've got two obvious basic challenges. Getting the ball safely up and over the net and then back down inside the service line.

If you have low to no spin, once you get your 2nd over the net, you're then relying totally on gravity to drop your serve into the service box.

That becomes a major opportunity for your opponent.

The key is to maintain, even accelerate, your racket head through the ball to produce a high quality spin that solves both of those challenges.

The spin you produce by hitting up actually curves the ball back down inside the service box...

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Tennis Drop Volley

The drop volley...

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Serve Tossing Motion - It's In The Shoulder

My serve tossing motion used to be a mess. I was all over the map in terms of never knowing where my toss was going to actually end up.

I'd look up there and just hope the ball would be somewhere in the vicinity of where I was trying to toss.

My tossing wrist was the problem and consequently I had zero confidence in both my 1st and 2nd serves.

Those days are fortunately long gone for me...

Tom Stow really helped me with the two aspects of my toss. One of them we recently discussed and that was how to hold the ball.

The other fundamental he gave me was to "feel" the ball in my shoulder. Huh...?

That's right, Tom wanted all of us to start the toss with our front shoulder.

And my apologies to my extremely good friend and often doubles partner Steve Cornell for referencing his tossing motion. He knows I mean well...!

So, get out there this week and practice your toss and try to start your motion from your front shoulder allowing your tossing arm to stay straight as you move your arm up to the finish position of the toss.

Also, make sure you read my post below from yesterday...

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Tennis Match Scores Can be Deceiving...

I had a good tournament last week over at the Marin Seniors, a national Super Category 2 tournament held at the Mill Valley Tennis Club.

Despite winning the tournament without losing more than 2 games per match (4 matches), I'm telling ya, every opponent was a quality player, and it forced me to concentrate (go through that 4 part between points routine) just as much as any other match I've played this year...

Taking an opponent for granted, assuming a certain outcome, whether it's a match victory or worse looking forward to the next round, all of those things are the kiss of death.

And I know you've heard all of this stuff before ever since you were a kid. It's common sense, but you know what, we still do it, and even if that thinking it's just a hair subconcious, it plays havoc with our abilty to concentrate and go through the processes we need to go through to play at our highest possible level for any given match.

Here's what I want you to do this week...

Schedule a match against a player you know you're going to beat 10 out of 10 times.

And play that match where you force yourself to concentrate between points as if you're up against a player who could beat you at least half of the time.

Go really into your 4 part between points routine and force your self to continue to do so even if you're winning easily.

I'm telling you, it's not as easy as it may sound, but the benefits for your game are enormous if you can find that emotionally controlled place in between points despite what's happening in the match.

Once you finish that match, see if you can schedule another practice match against a player who can probably beat you 10 out of 10 times, and simply repeat that between points routine.

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Michael Wayman Interview - Play Better in League/Tournament Matches Mindset - Part 1

My good friend and men's coach at St. Mary's College out here in northern California, Michael Wayman, and my coach for the past year or so, was kind enough to spend some time on the phone with me this morning.

You may have not heard of Michael, an outrageously good player at 55, but he knows the game of tennis as well as anyone I know.

Michael was an All-American at USC - University of Southern California (that's right, we won't hold that against him fellow Cal Bear fans, right...?) and he played on the men's pro tour for 8 years.

During his playing career, Michael had singles wins over then world #5 Gene Mayer; Ille Nastase; Guillermo Vilas; and doubles wins over John McEnroe and Stan Smith.

This guy has been there, done that, and to me is a vast wealth of knowledge...

And Michael is one of those rare former top world players who has been able to articulate the game to "the rest of us" in terms that we not only can understand, but in terms that actually helps us improve our games.

And believe me, that's not as easy as it might seem.

OK, enough of an intro for Michael and let's get down to the 3 questions I asked Michael to discuss this morning.

Lots of players are frustrated about:

• Being a good practice match player but play nowhere near that level in either a league or tournament match when it counts.
• In a league or tournament match against an equal or lesser rated player, we win the first set, get up a break in the 2nd, and can't close it out.
• In a league or tournament match against a higher rated player, we win the first set and can't close it out.
• For the above questions I asked Michael to help us define what's the problem, what's the solution, and how does one practice the solution?

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